Emanuele Garone - Emanuele Garone obtained his Ph.D degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2009. In 2007 he was finalist for the IEEE CSS CDC Best Student-Paper Award and in 2014 he was finalist to the Young Author Prize of the 2014 IFAC World Congress. Since 2010 he joined the Control Design and System Analysis department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium as an Associate Professor. His current research activities include: model predictive control, distributed reference governor, networked control systems and heterogeneous networks of vehicles.
Stefano Di Cairano - Stefano Di Cairano received the Master (Laurea), and the PhD in Information Engineering in 2004 and 2008, respectively, from the University of Siena, Italy. He wasvisiting student at the Technical University of Denmark, in 2002-2003, and at the California Institute ofTechnology, Pasadena, CA, in 2006-2007. In 2008-2011, he was with Powertrain Control R&A, Ford Research and Adv. Engineering,Dearborn, MI. Since 2011 he is with the Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA, where he is now a Team Leader in Mechatronics. His research is on advanced control strategies for complex systems, in automotive, factory automation, and aerospace. His interests include model predictive control, constrained control, networked control systems, hybrid systems, optimization. He is the Chair of the IEEE CSS Tech. Comm. on Automotive Controls, a member of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology.
Ilya Kolmanovsky - has received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering, and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1993, 1995, and 1995, respectively. He is presently a professor in the department of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, with research interests in control theory for systems with state and control constraints, and in control applications to aerospace and automotive systems. Dr. Kolmanovsky has previously been with Ford Research and Advanced Engineering in Dearborn, Michigan, for close to 15 years. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a past recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of American Automatic Control Council, and of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award
Alessandro Casavola - was born in Florence, Italy, in 1958. He received the Ph.D degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1990. He has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering of the University of Florence from 1996 to 1998 as a Researcher. Since 1998 he is with the Department of Computer Science, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering of the University of Calabria: as an Associate Professor first and as Full Professor since 2005. His current research interests include constrained predictive control, control under constraints, control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems and supervision approaches over data networks. His is a Subject Editor of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
Francesco Tedesco – He received the Laurea Specialistica degree in Automation Engineering in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering in 2012 from the University of Calabria, Italy. Since 2012 he is Postdoc student at the Department of Computer Science, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering of the University of Calabria, Italy. His main research interests involve supervision approaches over data network, Model Predictive Control, automotive applications and control of power systems.
Other speakers: Other speakers are foreseen and will include speakers from industry. The actual name of the speakers will be communicated in a later stage, on the basis of the companies’ availabilities.
May 14, 2014: Workshop at CSC